Improving your mental performance - managing arousal levels

In part six of our brain training series, Mental Performance Coach Sally McGinn focuses on managing arousal levels. Do you suffer with competition nerves? What are the tools to help you calm down? Or are you the opposite, and need help to get yourself psyched up to perform at your best?

Sally has been working in sports psychology for more than 10 years and set up her private practice, Mind Odyssey, last year. She works with a variety of sportspeople, including individuals and teams. Sally grew up riding horses and evented up to Intermediate level. Once she stopped eventing, she continued to be involved in the sport as an owner, with her horse making it to the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials, finishing in the top 20.